Revert the Ninja change please, thanks.

[Dustoid]

I don't know what to tell you. Imo Having 4 mini assassinates locking you in place and awkwardly inching you into the enemy just doesn't feel good. It was clunky and I'm glad its gone.

Totally agree, the abilities should definitely not be reverted to their 6.0 state for this reason. The problem with the 6.0 version was the forced gap closer + having to do 2 full GCDs after every Raiton, and the 6.05 changes address both issues. However, it's a shame to lose a fun 2-step combo, and a bit awkward to instead have 2 nearly identical abilities on the action bar, is it not?

[Equitable_Remedy]

and a bit awkward to instead have 2 nearly identical abilities on the action bar, is it not?

Another way to put it is that we have a high-damage ability, Fleeting Raiju, and a situation gap closer, Forked Raiju, than doesn't involve a damage trade off with Fleeting Raiju.

As a practical matter, they spent resources to create the Fleeting Raiju graphic, etc., and they likely don't have the resources to wholly replace it with something else at the beginning of the expansion. The change that they made seems like a really good one given the likely constraints.

[Shurrikhan]

However, it's a shame to lose a fun 2-step combo, and a bit awkward to instead have 2 nearly identical abilities on the action bar, is it not?

I don't see why they didn't just, at this point, turn the gap closer into a conditional element. Give Forked/Fleeting a 4-yalm range, up from the normal 3-yalm melee range and have the gap-closer activate (or, have Forked replace Fleeting) only if out of that 4-yalm range. Voila, no bloat necessary.

...That said, I'd have preferred to stick that feature on each, keep the two-step combo, and perhaps have Forked Raijuu Ready's duration shrink to 5-10 seconds in exchange for not having our weaponskill combo actions cancel it. The back-to-back attacks looked so good, imo.

not a fan of being lowest dps just because we have Trick Attack even though we're the highest APM class with one of the busiest burst phases many times during heavy mechanics this tier.

The only damage adjustment, outside of having more rDPS than anyone about equally busy and lacking non-rDPS utility, I want to see from NIN is for Trick Attack's effect to vary with target as not to punish it in light party content for being balanced around 8-man content.

Give me a whopping ~15% on a typical mob, ~8% on a dungeon boss, the current 5% on an 8-man, and perhaps only ~3% on a 24-man boss since it's the only raid buff that affects all 24 players, instead of just their 8-man party.